Order I. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
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4^ Stem 1-fl. smooth, Flower nodding. Petals acute bearded at end. Leaves lanceolate 
'^505 Flower erect. Petals lanceol. acuminate, Leaves lanceolate linear 
4S()6 Coat of bulb woolly inside. Leaves ciliated glaucous. Stem and flower smooth 
4507 Stem 1-fl. smooth. Flower erect, Petals obtuse smootli. Leaves ovate lanceolate 
46()8 Stem 1-fl. pubescent, Flower erect, Petals obtuse smooth. Leaves ovate lanceolate 
451)9 Flower erect stellate with a dark eye. Leaves linear lanceolate 
4510 Leaves lin. lane, convolute. Petals lanceolate greenish outside 
4511 One-flowered, Flower from fusiform spreading. Sepals very long caudate 
4512 Flowers erect flat, Stem 2-leaved 2-3-flowered, Leaves linear subulate 
4513 Raceme comose naked below. Leaves entire 
4514 Raceme naked, Leaves oblique 
4515 Leaves glaucous num.erous oblique. Cor. turbinate 
4516 Leaves lane, alternate remote. Stem 1-flowered naked upwards. Angles of caps, obtu.se 
4517 Leaves linear whorled opp. and alternate when old cirrhose, Stem many-flowered, Capsule wniged 
4518 Lower leaves opp. Inner flowers among the leaves 
4519 Leaves scattered flat coriaceous glaucous, Cor. campanulate revolutc at end 
4520 Leaves alternate linear nerved flat. Stem 1-flowered 
4521 Leaves lin. lane, alternate; the upper approximated shorter than the termuial solitary flower 
4522 Leaves lane, approximated, the upper opp. as long as the terminal solitary flower. Capsule obtuse angled 
4523 Leaves alternate linear channelled. Stem one-flowered 
4524 Leaves whorled, Flower erect. Cor. campanulate, Petals sessile 
4525 Leaves fleshy spiny at end 
4526 Herbaceous caulescent. Leaves ensiform 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
Incomparable Verports; very perfect cups, cherry and rose, and white bottoms, well broken with shining 
brown. 
Byblomens, or mixt flowers, the flamands of the French florists, with bottoms white, or nearly so, from 
different breeders, and broken with variety of colors. 
Bizarres [bizarre, Fr. odd, irregular) ; ground yellow, from different breeders, and broken with variety of 
colors. 
What are called breeders are procured from seed, and consist of one plain color on a white or yellow bottom. 
These being cultivated on a dry and rather poor soil, become broken or variegated, and produce new varieties. 
The time that elapses before they break, varies from one to twenty years or more, and sometimes this change 
never takes place, so that whoever thinks of raising new varieties of tulips from seed, must be possessed of an 
ample fund of patience and perseverance. The early dwarf tulip, known among florists as the Van Tholl, is 
a distinct species, T. suaveolens. 
In raising tulips from seed, the florists pursue a mode in some respects the reverse of that practised with 
other plants. Instead of saving the seed to be sown from the finest variegated tulips, they prefer unbroken 
flowers or breeders, selecting such of these as have tall strong stems, with large well-formed cups, clear in the 
bottom. Plants raised from seed saved from the finer variegated sorts, form poor weak breeders of no value. 
The seed is sown on fine light soil, thinly covered, and protected and shaded by a frame. 'At the end of the 
second year the bulbs are taken up and replanted three inches apart ; and again at the end of tlie f ourth year. 
Some will bloom the fourth year, most the fifth, and ull of them the seventh year. Being now f urnished with 
a set of breeders, all that the florist can do is to take up and replant till they break or shew variegation, which, 
as already observed, some will do in a year or two, and some not for a long period, or never. Some vary the 
soil to promote breaking, but in doing this there is often danger of weakening the strength of the flower. 
In cultivating choice tulips, an open airy situation, dry at bottom, is made choice of; there excavations are 
made commonly in the form of beds four feet broad, of any convenient length, and two and a half or tliree 
feet deep. In the bottom a layer of well rotten hot-bed dung is laid and well trod in, and on this two or 
two and a half feet of rich fresh sandy loam. On this the roots are planted six inches apart, and covered four 
inches. The best season is the beginning of November. In very severe winters, protection by mats or by 
a layer of decayed tanner's bark, may be requisite ; but the tulip is very hardy, and almost the only protection 
it requires is shading and shielding from rain and winds during full bloom. The bulbs should be taken up 
annually, as soon as the flowers are decayed, and kept in a dry airy situation till wanted for planting. (See 
Madocks, Hogg, Emerton, &c.) 
T. clusiana and T. celsiana are both elegant little border bulbs, inferior indeed to their prototypes in splendour 
of coloring, but more elegant in their simplicity. 
773. Fi itillaria. Fritillus signifies a. dice-box, and is said to have been the origin of this name. This is a 
genus with flowers shewy and singular in appearance. They require a deep loamy soil, and are readily in- 
creased by offsets or seeds. They will grow in the shade of trees and shrubs, and do not require to be taken 
up^ above once in three years. 
774. Drac(ena. From Aeocxctivct, the female of hfcixcuv, a dragon, because the inspissated juice becomes a 
red powder very like the eastern dragon's blood. D. draco has the habit of a palm. The trunk is nearly 
